Talk:Jan-ken-pon

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Contents 1 Rock, paper, scissors 2 Kuma Ken 3 Mature Use of Janken 4 Merge? 5 Ugly paragraph 6 More than two players 7 Pesos? 8 images 9 Article Title 10 Merge

[edit] Rock, paper, scissors

Shouldn't both articles be merged into one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.42.45.102 (talk) 02:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC) I agree - merge please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.85.139 (talk) 21:21, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I added a merge tag earlier today. I'll do the merging provided no one objects, but I have to say, either way, there is really no reason there should be separate articles. With the two users above this statement in agreement, the merge tag is merely notification as a courtesy IMO. --Roehl Sybing (talk) 00:16, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kuma Ken

Anyone else realize that Kuma Ken is basically exactly the same thing as Janken? I've added a sub-section to the Kuma Ken section to point this out. 75.34.99.57 02:30, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mature Use of Janken

As an American who lived in Japan for several months, I was surprised to see how many decisions are made by this method from adults. Not that this is a verifiable "source" worthy for addition to an article, but just something I noticed. It led to a joke about the Japanese government secretly making all decisions by Janken. 165.190.89.145 03:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Can someone give me a good reason why I shouldn't post {{merge}} for Rock Paper Scissors? I mean, the Japanese significance of the game is interesting and all (and could be covered in a merged article), but essentially they're the same game, yes? - PhilipR 03:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

First of all, I would say that the Rock Paper Scissors article is already pretty long, and adding more material from this article might make it too long. Plus I think Janken deserves an article in its own right because of its significance in Japanese culture. Bobo12345 07:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ugly paragraph

Does anyone know what the "Guu Paa Janken" section is trying to say? Some of the spaces aren't even ASCII spaces, and are double-width. Never mind how impossible the language is. --86.41.122.179 19:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

-It is probably that a person from Japan or the Phillapines or something used a translator program. The paragraph should be fixed or deleted.

I think I can guess the meaning, and if I guess correctly, I think it is relevant to the article. However, as it stands, it is so horrible that I hereby move it from the article to a talk page subpage, /Guu Paa Janken.--Niels Ø (noe) 16:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I attempted to fix that shit up. Someone edit it for me; too lazy/tired to do anymore right now. 70.253.71.91 05:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More than two players

I've often seen Janken played by more than two players. How exactly are winners determined? Could somebody who understands better Japanese than I do maybe look at the Japanese version of the article and translate the section 勝敗の決定 (the part about 3 players and more). --84.174.126.190 15:53, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pesos?

Just what is with all the pictures of Pesos replacing Paper on the page? I'd fix it, but I don't know how to revert.

It looks like the image file itself was replaced and I don't know how to revert an image. I've re-uploaded the original image from the image's history section

Err, I stupidly missed all the other instances of that image. I've fixed them all FyreFiend 05:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] images

the hand images are all the same (paper) and don't match the description. kwami (talk) 22:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

It looks as if all of the other images were deleted at some point - the article needs to be cleaned up to work around that. We certainly shouldn't be using images to explain the rules of the game, for accessibility reasons. --McGeddon (talk) 17:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article Title

The fact that I don't believe that Janken merits its own article notwithstanding, should this article be called "Jan-ken-pon"? Is that the actual full Japanese name of Janken? Certainly the Japanese wikipedia article is just called "Janken". --awh (Talk) 09:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

So is the debate on merging with Rock Paper Scissors now over? It seems to have petered out... (Strong support for merge, by the way.) Leushenko (talk) 14:38, 6 April 2008 (UTC)